Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:30:00 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org> To: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: hald(8) vs. xorg-server's HAL Message-ID: <54985518.4090403@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi! A few days ago, xserver 1.14 was committed with a new input device detection backend based on devd(8) instead of hald(8). It appears many people disabled hald(8) in their /etc/rc.conf and now see regressions. So let's clarify this. The X.Org server was a consumer of the service provided by hald(8) among many others. Now, by default, xserver uses devd(8) to perform the same task. However, hald(8) is still required by many Desktop environment! Beside input devices, hald(8) helps some applications list other kind of resources, such as storage device or mountpoints, and get notifications. Therefore, keep hald_enable="yes" in your /etc/rc.conf unless you are sure no application use it. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUmFUYXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAw MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwAAoJEDnpl2Gl/ZTMReMQAJ1TK2K0dCOX9+IP7uVE9vjH RWFlzlKuPfyoCU4DC1A6wPAdz8nFcgNm3qMG6yO79xRI3NrRsuxe5LdQPD3sk3Mg RXf5N3tLM+u4N6EDipbW/fOwrH9N8ZzizRMKaM797Izetwk3H+5mXDugnbJNHeE2 GAZU3XuWNyPr3mwlf0g6fiNLcXx0Z90emTeeZ6a0nICKCaW1yjWxAcIUdI+A5yuP DJ2+cit4zeSx0nTJLEl8+q0UPWaMPuL36Z8dCjQWk6CFp+NikKFGkOw2+QVQOXEx k4vpz9GTh0xAVwS9A05Y7GUvQzzMQFyBi3QZOJFxtfJNsVxltZD3iuuMoh3L425W JcxUAdcE2QLF/bf59c+s0ngkBe1NJaL8QiQhU3UgisSn10mvUS1IMv8ji+krZkcV 51pYP4NheT35sB83JO3vM8LNYIds/1Geq/UYc40LdahJ7yndHX19Jkae4StqsSvL 4B3iO+6n9r6YVhMcMI4SNlfZa1d4feDZkvtSYUhsdkZ+hCXPF6DLP4iC3bCxxOHW HTGZP+WupeSLE4Sx488g6VM87wWyibM4540+mlA3x5hMFXfUzwAoLbdWQXT5qD4X zZY6NjAJe3pVYVjlyUV1V7EtWzHRGBOid8kJObqamqd3RnVDIQbFQrd/kkdvPtX7 L0mt95q8PJ+0KVhQq4Wp =tdzh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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